Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [verb] [pron] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I think Stan expected me to grab it with both hands and when I declined , he just sat there and could n't believe it . |
| 2 | I think Stan expected me to grab it with both hands . |
| 3 | Noone knew what had happened cos noone expected a free kick in the first place let alone expected them to take it like that . |
| 4 | For example , if the soft sell chap fails to wheedle his client into buying , his partner can ring him up and say : " My colleague 's at an important meeting , but he asked me to call you about this stock . |
| 5 | Paul Reichmann asked me to delay everything for two months and I agreed . |
| 6 | They asked me to follow them without any explanation and blindfolded me . |
| 7 | ‘ What made me develop her along masochistic lines ? |
| 8 | Sid helped me carry them to that table ready for serving . |
| 9 | Please note that individual hotels , guest houses and selfcatering establishments have the right to vary the conditions outlined here and/or impose additional conditions , provided them inform you of such conditions before they accept your booking . |
| 10 | His occasional outbursts of anger shocked those around him , but he felt an uncontrollable flame of fury whenever he saw a child being bullied or mistreated which blinded him to all else . |
| 11 | I think it helped her having something like that to do . |
| 12 | so , she thinks like they were , they were on show these just for a wardrobe and a set of drawers for a thousand quid , he let her have them for six hundred , so she 's been and paid a deposit on them |
| 13 | Because there 's always been an opport , I mean even if your sort of poor , there 's always the opportunity , I mean I learnt to drive and then the driving instructor erm , lived next door to my mother saying , it , at the time it should of been three pound and erm , he let us have it for two pound |
| 14 | I do as I 'm told , and he told me to include you in this job . ’ |
| 15 | I believed I put them to good use against Pakistan . |
| 16 | She claimed her mum Susan pestered her to introduce her to former James Bond star Sean Connery . |
| 17 | I expected you to pay me for such attentions , my dear . |
| 18 | ‘ But they never asked you to do anything like that here . ’ |
| 19 | As she turned she saw him with startling clarity , brightly instantaneous as a camera flash . |
| 20 | They begged him to let them off this time , but he rang back hour after hour , day , after day : " Sell your car . |
| 21 | And there were those men who encouraged us to reprimand them for sexist thoughts and deeds . |
| 22 | Behind him he heard someone mumble something about pre-menstrual tension , and a wry chuckle escaped him . |
| 23 | As the fortunes of the mine declined we discover him during 1877 paid as " John Latham and boys " with his account as low as £31 for a month ; a far cry from the 1840's-1860's when the dressing staff of old men , women , boys and girls averaged 100 and their total wages ranged from £142 to £241 . |
| 24 | But Fenella seemed to have caught the Gruagach 's interest fairly and squarely ; Caspar , only partly listening , heard her telling them about another life , another world , where people had fled in panic from the Feargach Grian many centuries earlier and how the Feargach Grian had , on that occasion , appeared in one of its truly terrible aspects . |
| 25 | Last year , Morrissey told the NME : ‘ I am incapable of racism ’ which , in turn , prompted me to exonerate him from any underlying racist intent in his work and to conclude , ‘ the liberal cycle appears to have been completed ’ . |
| 26 | But perhaps because she was thus secretly rejecting him and yet knew at the same time that he was in love with her , a sense of justice prompted her to help him in amorous efforts , to support him , to rid him of childish embarrassment . |
| 27 | His expression warned him to leave it at that . |
| 28 | Such remarks , though a backhanded compliment in their implied assumption of her intelligence , made her hate him with such an intensity that she could actually feel herself start to tremble and sweat . |
| 29 | His many-sided aesthetic interests led him to surround himself with first editions , Bristol glass , mother-of-pearl knick-knacks , and , above all , his notable collection of musical boxes ( later given to the Pitt Rivers Museum , Oxford ) . |
| 30 | On Nov. 11 Hezbollah radio , the Voice of the Oppressed , had broadcast an attack on the government policy statement , which , it claimed , contained nothing to distinguish it from previous policy statements . |